Using OSCAR with The Color Purple
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Direct and Indirect Characterization: OSCAR
Lesson Plans by Rebecca Ray
OSCAR is an acronym designed to help readers understand direct and indirect characterization. Through the use of OSCAR, as a reading and writing strategy, readers are asked to think and write about the different ways they learn about a character.
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Lesson Plans by Kristy Littlehale
The Color Purple is one of the most defining novels in African American fiction. The story follows the life of Celie, an African American woman living in the South during the Jim Crow era.
Storyboard Description
The Color Purple characters analysis direct and indirect characterization
Storyboard Text
- CELIE
- "I feel bad sometime Nettie done pass me in learnin. But look like nothing she say can git in my brain and stay. She try to tell me something bout the ground not being flat. I just say, Yeah, like I know it. I never tell her how flat it look to me."
- S: Character's Speech
- C: Physical Characteristics
- A: Author's Attitude
- R: Reader's Reaction
- "She ugly. He say. But she ain't no stranger to hard work. And she clean... Fact is, he say, I got to git rid of her. She too old to be living here at home. And she a bad influence on my other girls." - Pa
- O: Other Characters' Comments
- Celie is sweet and kind and selfless, but the men in her life treat her like trash. Even the children treat Celie like she doesn't deserve love. It's infuriating and sad.
- The author paints Celie as self-conscious and unsure of herself. Celie thinks she might deserve better, but doesn't know how to believe it until Shug comes along.
- Skinny, plain, not very pretty
- SHUG AVERY
- S: Character's Speech
- C: Physical Characteristics
- A: Author's Attitude
- R: Reader's Reaction
- O: Other Characters' Comments
- ALBERT (MR. ______)
- S: Character's Speech
- C: Physical Characteristics
- A: Author's Attitude
- R: Reader's Reaction
- O: Other Characters' Comments
- SOFIA
- S: Character's Speech
- C: Physical Characteristics
- A: Author's Attitude
- R: Reader's Reaction
- O: Other Characters' Comments
- NETTIE
- S: Character's Speech
- C: Physical Characteristics
- A: Author's Attitude
- R: Reader's Reaction
- O: Other Characters' Comments
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